Counting Parking Spots, From Above” …they counted 21,690 parking spots in New Haven in 1951. By 2009, the number was 106,410. Hartford, meanwhile, went from about 47,000 spots in the mid-1950s to about 141,000 today. All the while, both cities lost considerable population, while the number of parking spaces per driver doubled.These trends speak to a conventional wisdom that more development, more businesses, more people—more of anything—should always come with more parking.” (via Atlantic Cities)